“Consumer Reports” has published results of its latest survey (http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010/03/best-and-worst-tech-support-ratings-laptop-desktop-computer-survey-reviews.html) on the best and worst companies for computer tech support. And Apple, as you might expect, excelled.
Read MoreTroi Automatisering has releasedTroi Dialog Plug-in 5.5 for FileMaker Pro 11. Troi Dialog Plug-in is a tool for displaying all sorts of dialogs in FileMaker Pro 11. The text of the dialog and of the buttons can be created dynamically by using a calculation.
Troi Dialog Plug-in 5.5 is an update for FileMaker Pro 11. It adds support for the PNG image format, including support for transparency in the icon. The new version also implements Cococa versions of the Progress and InputDialog dialogs.
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WD has introduced its new My Passport AV portable media drives (http://www.westerndigital.com/MyPassportAV), which are designed specifically for video storage and playback and come with 320GB of capacity for US$109.99.
A large and increasing number of game consoles, camcorders, TVs, DVRs, Blu-ray players and media players, including the WD TV Media Player family, allow consumers to connect a USB drive and play the multimedia content from the drive on an HD TV. The My Passport AV portable media drive is designed to meet the requirements of this video streaming environment.
Read MoreMarkzware has released PageZephyr 2.0 (http://www.pagezephyr.com), which is targeted to publishing companies, advertising firms, legal eDiscovery and other companies possessing so-called proprietary files. It captures, indexes, and converts content created in proprietary or non-common formats without the need for the original authoring application.
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Another day, another lawsuit. Apple, AT&T, Research in Motion and other mobile companies are defendants in a new patent suit that covers a broad range of smartphone related technologies, including e-mail syncing and Bluetooth connectivity.
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